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From S. A. Barrett "The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo Indians," University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (UCPAAE) 6:1 (February 1908), pp,. 51-54. Used for S. A. Barrett "Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok," UCPAAE 16:1 (March 27, 1919), and probably other papers.
The characters used to represent the various sounds found in the languages under consideration are as follows17a:
Vowels:
a | as in father. |
ār; | of the same quality, but of longer duration.
The macron is here used purely as a matter of convenience to distinguish a few words. |
ai | as in aisle. |
ēr; | as in obey. |
e | as in met. |
Ī | as in machine. |
i | as in pin. |
ō | as in note. |
o | English aw. |
uū | as in rule. |
u | as in put. |
û | as in but. |
an ain, ōn, ūn, Īn | nasalized vowels. |
A, I, U | obscure vowels. |
The macron (¯), except in the case of a, has been employed entirely as a means of designating the quality of vowels and is no indication of quantity.
The apostrophe (') following a vowel or consonant indicates a pronounced aspiration.
Consonants:18
17a In order to facilitate reference to them the Indian names of villages appear in italics. In such names the letters which appear in this alphabet as Roman are italicised and vice versa.
18 In describing the consonants used, the following approximate positions of the tongue upon the roof of the mouth are mentioned; velar, on the rear half of the soft palate, post-palatal, on the forward half of the soft palate, medio-palatal, on the rear half of the hard palate, pre-palatal, on the forward half of the hard palate, and alveolar, on the alveolar or gingival arch. The positions of the sounds used in the various languages under consideration have, of course, thus far been determined only by observation and it is probable that when they are determined exactly by mechanical means some will be found to differ somewhat from the positions here given, depending much upon the individual speakng them.
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